Hsinchu, July 6 (CNA) Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Hsinchu Mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) sued Taipei City Councilor Wang Hung-wei (王鴻薇) for slander Wednesday after the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) politician publicly accused Lin of academic plagiarism.
The Ministry of Education yesterday said that it was considering measures to instill greater academic fidelity at institutions and preserve the quality of academic papers.
The measures being considered include reducing the student recruitment quota at departments and colleges that fail to enforce academic discipline, and attributing blame to the instructing professor or department.
The ministry has told universities that all master’s and doctoral theses must be transparent and public.
Hopefully, students who do not make their thesis public will become the minority, it said.
The ministry would also publish the ratio of non-public theses at all academic departments across Taiwan, it added.
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Taipei, July 5 (CNA) Hsinchu City Mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) said Tuesday he would sue Taipei City Councilor Wang Hung-wei (王鴻薇) of the Kuomintang (KMT) for slander, after the councilor accused the mayor of plagiarizing his master's thesis.
Accusations of a plagiarized report sparked a denial and a war of words along with promises to sue and defiance in the face of such threats as politicians clashed yesterday.
Taipei City Councilor Wang Hung-wei (王鴻薇) said a thesis that Hsinchu Mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) submitted while studying in a master’s program at Chung Hua University drew most of its content from a paper that was released a month earlier.
Lin, the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) nominee for the Taoyuan mayoral election in November, denied the allegation, adding that he is mulling legal action against Wang, a member of the